[cheshire137]

I'm a woman and a programmer. I don't know why they aren't more female programmers. Going through school up through high school, I always had the impression that of my fellow classmates, the girls were the best in class. Pre-calculus was the highest math course my dinky high school offered, and there were a couple girls in there with me out of maybe eight students total. It was only when I came to college that I started seeing way more men in my CS and math classes, and lost the impression that guys were just apathetic about school. The only girls in my classes were Indian or Asian, and there weren't many of them. One other white girl I knew told me she went into CS because she thought that was the right field for becoming a secretary. I've never had problems with guys harassing me because of my interests or jobs, for which I suppose I'm fortunate. I wish I knew why there were so few women in my college CS classes, and why I rarely meet other female programmers in my town now.